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Anti-Violence Rally Canceled Over Safety Concerns
Oaland Tribune ^
| 9/30/2006
| Heather MacDonald
Posted on 09/30/2006 1:32:48 PM PDT by CAWats
OAKLAND — Citing concerns about public safety, city officials Friday canceled an anti-violence rally and concert expected to draw 300 to 400 teenagers and young adults to downtown Oakland.
"Get Hyphy Against Violence," featuring nine musical acts and testimony from victims of violent crime, had been scheduled to take place today at City Hall Plaza, but did not have the required special event permit or adequate security, officials said.
Police commanders said they were concerned that, without enough officers, the anti-violence rally could backfire and create a melee similar to one that erupted after the last Carijama festival, held on City Hall Plaza in 2004.
"It's honorable what they are trying to do, and we're not saying it will be violent," said Niccolo De Luca, assistant to City Administrator Deborah Edgerly. "But because of the public safety concerns, we decided it was best to cancel it."
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; ghetto; irony; oakland; oaktown; thereisnotherethere; violence
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:32:50 PM PDT
by
CAWats
To: CAWats
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:35:49 PM PDT
by
Drango
(Born free, now expensive.)
To: CAWats
Profiling! I am indignant!
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:36:25 PM PDT
by
rogue yam
To: Drango
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:37:57 PM PDT
by
CAWats
(Post to Free Republic without knowing HTML. Click my name.)
To: CAWats
"Get Hyphy Against Violence"
To: CAWats
"But because of the public safety concerns, we decided it was best to cancel it." So, the Anti-Violence Rally canceled...because of possible violence.
How ironic...
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:42:56 PM PDT
by
CrawDaddyCA
(Tancredo/Paul 2008)
To: K4Harty
Great. Now I'm going to go all day wondering what that pic was.
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:44:23 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: CAWats
I guess liberals in Oakland can't guarantee an anti-violence rally will stay non-violent.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:44:29 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: RandallFlagg
What pic? The one in my post? i can see it, can't you?
Are you logged on? :o)
Also, when i get a dreaded red X i right click it copy the path and enter it into my browser. it pops up and them I BACK to FR and it should be in place.
To: CAWats
Jerry Brown for Attorney General bump. /s
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:47:39 PM PDT
by
Drango
(Born free, now expensive.)
To: martin_fierro; Constitution Day; Owl_Eagle; Tijeras_Slim; TheBigB
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:49:09 PM PDT
by
Toby06
(Hydrogen is not a fuel source. Hydrogen is an energy storage method, like a battery.)
To: CAWats
Get Hyphy Against Violence
What does 'hyphy' mean? Break windows and torch cars?
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:50:51 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: P-40
From Wikipedia
An individual is said to "get hyphy" when they act or dance in an overstated and ridiculous manner.
I had to look myself.
To: CAWats; All
To: K4Harty
Also, when i get a dreaded red X i right click it copy the path and enter it into my browser. it pops up and them I BACK to FR and it should be in place.
Great idea. I never thought of that. I just assumed there wasn't any picture.
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:54:46 PM PDT
by
CAWats
(Post to Free Republic without knowing HTML. Click my name.)
To: martin_fierro
"It's Cali's version of Crunk. Intead of sayin let's get crunk, you'd say get hyphy."
Ah, that explains it.
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posted on
09/30/2006 1:57:52 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: P-40
Hyphy?
See, this is what happens when one spends all their time brainwashing the adults and children only about politically correct fantasy land BS, instead of giving them a real education that includes the English language and grammar.
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posted on
09/30/2006 2:02:12 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: CAWats
I'm still trying to find out what "get jiggy with it" means.
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posted on
09/30/2006 2:02:43 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: CAWats
glad to help, becuase like you, I NEED to know what pictures are being posted. :o)
To: martin_fierro
I ain't learnin' their jargon 'til they learn mine,
" 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe."
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posted on
09/30/2006 2:05:30 PM PDT
by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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